You-choose – week 20!

I’m trying something new this week, and offering some foraged fruits that are growing on the property. The first one is a fruit you all are probably familiar with: muscadine grapes. These vines are vigorous and can sometimes shade out trees to the point that they’re harmful, and there’s a giant one growing on the tree right about our water pump. If you’ve never had these grapes before, they can be tangy if they’re a little under ripe, but are generally quite sweet, and taste a little more like “grape flavor” in a supermarket item than the grapes you’re used to at the grocery story. And they have large seeds. That may not sound very appetizing, and I know people who are not fond of them, but I love them! The second item is a new one that I just discovered grows in North Carolina. It’s a type of passion fruit called a Maypop. It’s a soft green pod about the size of the kiwi, and when you pop it open, there’s a slimy pulp with seeds on the inside that reminds me a little bit of pomegranates. It is also tangy and very sweet, though the flavor is totally different from the muscadines. If you want to read more, check out a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_incarnata. Other than that, we’ve got most of what we had last week, plus mixed lettuces, and two different type of turnips. Also, we test dug some sweet potatoes this week and they’re looking good! We will not be able to get them out of the ground if it’s wet, but hopefully the ground will dry out after the rain that’s forecast for Tuesday, and we’ll be able to harvest all of the sweet potatoes over the next couple of weeks.

Notes From The Farm

Hello! New on the list this week are parsley, dill, beets, and red curly kale (tastes just like the green kale, but is super pretty)! We’re still waiting on the broccoli and cauliflower, but hopefully they’ll be ready real soon, and though it’s dipping down into the 30s one night week, if the frost holds ... Read more...

Hello! The list is pretty similar to last week, with all of the green still looking great. The main new addition is carrots, which are still on the small side but looking good. And our sad pepper plants have made a little bit of a recovery, and we have small to medium size green bell ... Read more...

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